The role of gefitinib in lung cancer treatment

G Giaccone - Clinical cancer research, 2004 - AACR
… Paul Bunn: The preclinical trials show A431 as an aberrant cell line, and they showed that
15% of lung cancer cells in vitro have a great response to gefitinib, and that’s the same as the …

Gefitinib as palliative therapy for lung adenocarcinoma metastatic to the brain

C Wu, YL Li, ZM Wang, Z Li, TX Zhang, Z Wei - Lung Cancer, 2007 - Elsevier
… with NSCLC have exhibited a response to gefitinib. The clinical objective of this study was
to evaluate the efficacy of gefitinib in patients with lung adenocarcinoma and brain metastasis. …

Effect of gefitinib ('Iressa', ZD1839) on brain metastases in patients with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer

K Hotta, K Kiura, H Ueoka, M Tabata, K Fujiwara… - Lung cancer, 2004 - Elsevier
… Background: Gefitinib (‘Iressa’, ZD1839), an orally active epidermal … cell lung cancer (NSCLC)
in clinical trials. We have retrospectively analyzed the efficacy and tolerability of gefitinib in …

Effect of gefitinib on the survival of patients with recurrence of lung adenocarcinoma after surgery: a retrospective case-matching cohort study

T Katayama, K Matsuo, T Kosaka, T Sueda, Y Yatabe… - Surgical Oncology, 2010 - Elsevier
… in PFS in the gefitinib arm rather than carboplatin/paclitaxel arm but again effect on OS is
not … suggested that gefitinib improve OS of Japanese lung adenocarcinoma patients with …

Practical management of patients with non–small-cell lung cancer treated with gefitinib

NT Shah, MG Kris, W Pao, LB Tyson… - Journal of Clinical …, 2005 - ascopubs.org
… in persons with lung cancer. Many of the principles of management relevant to gefitinib are
distinct … practical guidelines on the use of gefitinib in patients with non–small-cell lung cancer. …

Review of the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer with gefitinib

T Araki, H Yashima, K Shimizu… - Clinical Medicine …, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
… of the EGFR gene in patients with gefitinib-sensitive lung cancer, as compared with none of
the … in lung cancer showed potential for identifying patients who would respond to gefitinib

Gefitinib Induces Apoptosis in the EGFRL858R Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer Cell Line H3255

S Tracy, T Mukohara, M Hansen, M Meyerson… - Cancer research, 2004 - AACR
… to gefitinib with IC 50 values of 40 nmol/L and 2 μmol/L, respectively. We examined the effects
of gefitinib on … sensitive (H1666) or resistant (A549 and H441) to gefitinib exposure in vitro. …

Cerebrospinal fluid concentrations of gefitinib in patients with lung adenocarcinoma

J Zhao, M Chen, W Zhong, L Zhang, L Li, Y Xiao… - Clinical lung cancer, 2013 - Elsevier
… as gefitinib and … gefitinib into the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). The aim of this study was to
investigate the CSF concentration of gefitinib in Chinese patients with lung adenocarcinomas

Effect of gefitinib re-challenge to initial gefitinib responder with non-small cell lung cancer followed by chemotherapy

Y Tomizawa, Y Fujita, A Tamura, M Shirai, S Shibata… - Lung Cancer, 2010 - Elsevier
gefitinib, and re-treated with gefitinib after acquired resistance to initial treatment with gefitinib
administration of initial gefitinib by side effects but re-treated with gefitinib were excluded in …

Gefitinib or carboplatin–paclitaxel in pulmonary adenocarcinoma

TS Mok, YL Wu, S Thongprasert… - … England Journal of …, 2009 - Mass Medical Soc
… for the responsiveness of pulmonary adenocarcinoma to gefitinib as compared with
carboplatin–paclitaxel. The difference in the rates of objective response between gefitinib-treated …